Myra Breckinridge | Literary Precedents
Henry James's experiments with multiple narrators in works like The Princess Casamassima (1886) and The Golden Bowl (1904) are behind Vidal's use of alternating narrators. James's experiments, in turn, have behind them a long tradition including works like Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and earlier epistolary novels, for example the anonymous Lazarillo de Tonnes, La Princesse de Clives (The Princess of Cleves, 1678) by Madame de La Fayette, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Love Affairs) by P.-A.-F. Choderlos de Laclos,...
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